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  • 2000-2004  (2)
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    Environmental Change and Human Development : Controlling Nature? (2003)
    London :Taylor & Francis Group,
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    Keywords: Social evolution. ; Electronic books.
    Description / Table of Contents: Environmental Change and Human Development focuses on environmental change and human fortunes. While there is a large and rapidly expanding literature dealing with how people affect the environment, less attention has been given in recent years to how the environment shapes human development. In an ever more crowded world there is a need for anticipatory environmental management, and a crucial input to this is consideration of the interaction between environment and humans. The environment is not as stable, benign or controllable as people like to think. The world population is vastly larger than it has ever been and is still growing, and humans increasingly upset nature through pollution and other activities. While modern communications may help environmental managers, rapid travel also increases the dispersal of diseases and pests. Technological advance and social development is not all beneficial; some innovations have the effect of making people more vulnerable to disruption by natural disaster, and citizens are often less able to cope with changed conditions than people were in the past. Environmental Change and Human Development addresses key issues such as soil degredation, natural climatic variations and volcanic activity, and provides geography and earth sciences students with an essential introduciton to the major debates surrounding this topic.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (264 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9781444144642
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=773228
    DDC: 304.2/8
    Language: English
    Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Environmental change before modern humans appeared -- 3 Environmental change during historical times -- 4 Are twenty-first-century humans more vulnerable to nature? -- 5 Ongoing natural threats -- 6 Reacting to environmental challenges and opportunities -- 7 Coping with nature -- 8 The future -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
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  • 2
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    Environmental Management and Development. (2004)
    Oxford :Taylor & Francis Group,
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    Keywords: Environmental policy. ; Electronic books.
    Description / Table of Contents: Different from existing environment and development texts, this volume, rather than listing problems, making warnings and voicing advocacy, looks at practical management and problem-solving techniques.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (289 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9780203495483
    Series Statement: Routledge Perspectives on Development Series
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=182347
    DDC: 363.7/05
    Language: English
    Note: Cover -- Environmental Management and Development -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Boxes -- Preface -- Part I Theory and approaches -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Environmental management and developing countries -- Part II Resource management issues by sector -- 3 Water, coastal and island resources -- 4 Agriculture, land degradation and food security -- 5 Biodiversity resources -- 6 Atmospheric issues -- 7 Urban environments and industrial pollution issues -- 8 Environmental threats -- Part III Environmental tools and policies -- 9 Environmental management methods, tools and techniques -- 10 Environmental accounting, green economics and business -- 11 Environmental management and development: the future -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
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